horsefly

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Noun

horsefly (plural horseflies)

1. Any of several medium- to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).

Synonyms

• (fly of family Tabanidae): cleg (dialectal), breezefly, gadfly

Hyponyms

• (individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae): deer fly, yellow fly, March fly (Australia), zimb

Translations

fly of the family Tabanidae

• Bulgarian: конска муха (bg) (kónska muhá) f 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虻 (cmn) (méng)

• Czech: ovád (cs) m
• Danish: klæg (da) c
• Dutch: paardenvlieg f, horzel m or f
• Estonian: parm (et)
• Faroese: kleggi (fo) m
• Finnish: paarma (fi)
• French: taon (fr) m
• German: Bremse (de) f
• Greek: αλογόμυγα (el) (alogómyga) 
• Hungarian: bögöly (hu)
• Icelandic: kleggi m
• Italian: tafano (it) m
• Japanese: 虻 (ja) (あぶ, ábu)
• Jèrriais: taon m

• Latin: tabānus (la) m
• Latvian: dundurs (lv) m
• Macedonian: коњска мува (mk) (kónjaska múva) f
• Navajo: tłʼézhii, łį́į́ʼ bitsísʼná
• Norwegian: klegg (no)
• Occitan: tavan (oc) m
• Old Norse: kleggi m
• Polish: bąk (pl) m
• Portuguese: mutuca (pt) f, tavão (pt) m, moscardo (pt) m
• Romanian: tăun (ro) m
• Russian: слепень (ru) (slépen’) m 
• Skolt Sami: puär
• Spanish: tábano (es) m
• Swedish: broms (sv) c
• Turkish: atsineği (tr)
• Ukrainian: ґедзь (uk) (gedz') m 

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